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Mole

Deep clean and optimize your Mac.

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Mole - 95.50GB freed

Features

  • All-in-one toolkit: Combines CleanMyMac, AppCleaner, DaisyDisk, and iStat Menus in a single binary
  • Deep cleaning: Removes caches, logs, and browser leftovers to reclaim gigabytes of space
  • Smart uninstaller: Removes apps plus launch agents, preferences, and hidden remnants
  • Disk insights: Visualizes usage, finds large files, rebuilds caches, and refreshes system services
  • Live monitoring: Shows real-time CPU, GPU, memory, disk, and network stats

Quick Start

Install via Homebrew

brew install mole

Or via script

# Optional args: -s latest for main branch code, -s 1.17.0 for specific version
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tw93/mole/main/install.sh | bash

Note: Mole is built for macOS. An experimental Windows version is available in the windows branch for early adopters.

Run

mo # Interactive menu
mo clean # Deep cleanup
mo uninstall # Remove apps + leftovers
mo optimize # Refresh caches & services
mo analyze # Visual disk explorer
mo status # Live system health dashboard
mo purge # Clean project build artifacts
mo installer # Find and remove installer files
mo touchid # Configure Touch ID for sudo
mo completion # Set up shell tab completion
mo update # Update Mole
mo update --nightly # Update to latest unreleased main build, script install only
mo remove # Remove Mole from system
mo --help # Show help
mo --version # Show installed version

Preview safely

mo clean --dry-run
mo uninstall --dry-run
mo purge --dry-run
# Also works with: optimize, installer, remove, completion, touchid enable
mo clean --dry-run --debug # Preview + detailed logs
mo optimize --whitelist # Manage protected optimization rules
mo clean --whitelist # Manage protected caches
mo purge --paths # Configure project scan directories
mo analyze /Volumes # Analyze external drives only

Security & Safety Design

Mole is a local system maintenance tool, and some commands can perform destructive local operations.

Mole uses safety-first defaults: path validation, protected-directory rules, conservative cleanup boundaries, and explicit confirmation for higher-risk actions. When risk or uncertainty is high, Mole skips, refuses, or requires stronger confirmation rather than broadening deletion scope.

mo analyze is safer for ad hoc cleanup because it moves files to Trash through Finder instead of deleting them directly.

Review SECURITY.md and SECURITY_AUDIT.md for reporting guidance, safety boundaries, and current limitations.

Tips

  • Video tutorial: Watch the Mole tutorial video, thanks to PAPAYA ้›ป่…ฆๆ•™ๅฎค.
  • Safety and logs: clean, uninstall, purge, installer, and remove are destructive. Review with --dry-run first, and add --debug when needed. File operations are logged to ~/.config/mole/operations.log. Disable with MO_NO_OPLOG=1. Review SECURITY.md and SECURITY_AUDIT.md.
  • Navigation: Mole supports arrow keys and Vim bindings h/j/k/l.

Features in Detail

Deep System Cleanup

$ mo clean
Scanning cache directories...
 โœ“ User app cache 45.2GB
 โœ“ Browser cache (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) 10.5GB
 โœ“ Developer tools (Xcode, Node.js, npm) 23.3GB
 โœ“ System logs and temp files 3.8GB
 โœ“ App-specific cache (Spotify, Dropbox, Slack) 8.4GB
 โœ“ Trash 12.3GB
====================================================================
Space freed: 95.5GB | Free space now: 223.5GB
====================================================================

Note: In mo clean -> Developer tools, Mole removes unused CoreSimulator Volumes/Cryptex entries and skips IN_USE items.

Smart App Uninstaller

$ mo uninstall
Select Apps to Remove
โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•โ•
โ–ถ โ˜‘ Photoshop 2024 (4.2G) | Old
 โ˜ IntelliJ IDEA (2.8G) | Recent
 โ˜ Premiere Pro (3.4G) | Recent
Uninstalling: Photoshop 2024
 โœ“ Removed application
 โœ“ Cleaned 52 related files across 12 locations
 - Application Support, Caches, Preferences
 - Logs, WebKit storage, Cookies
 - Extensions, Plugins, Launch daemons
====================================================================
Space freed: 12.8GB
====================================================================

System Optimization

$ mo optimize
System: 5/32 GB RAM | 333/460 GB Disk (72%) | Uptime 6d
 โœ“ Rebuild system databases and clear caches
 โœ“ Reset network services
 โœ“ Refresh Finder and Dock
 โœ“ Clean diagnostic and crash logs
 โœ“ Remove swap files and restart dynamic pager
 โœ“ Rebuild launch services and spotlight index
====================================================================
System optimization completed
====================================================================
Use `mo optimize --whitelist` to exclude specific optimizations.

Disk Space Analyzer

Note: By default, Mole skips external drives under /Volumes for faster startup. To inspect them, run mo analyze /Volumes or a specific mount path.

$ mo analyze
Analyze Disk ~/Documents | Total: 156.8GB
 โ–ถ 1. โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ 48.2% | ๐Ÿ“ Library 75.4GB >6mo
 2. โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘ 22.1% | ๐Ÿ“ Downloads 34.6GB
 3. โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘ 14.3% | ๐Ÿ“ Movies 22.4GB
 4. โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘ 10.8% | ๐Ÿ“ Documents 16.9GB
 5. โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘ 5.2% | ๐Ÿ“„ backup_2023.zip 8.2GB
 โ†‘โ†“โ†โ†’ Navigate | O Open | F Show | โŒซ Delete | L Large files | Q Quit

Live System Status

Real-time dashboard with health score, hardware info, and performance metrics.

$ mo status
Mole Status Health โ—ใใ‚ใพใ‚‹ 92 MacBook Pro ยท M4 Pro ยท 32GB ยท macOS 14.5
โš™ CPU โ–ฆ Memory
Total โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘ 45.2% Used โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘ 58.4%
Load 0.82 / 1.05 / 1.23 (8 cores) Total 14.2 / 24.0 GB
Core 1 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘ 78.3% Free โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘ 41.6%
Core 2 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘ 62.1% Avail 9.8 GB
โ–ค Disk โšก Power
Used โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘โ–‘ 67.2% Level โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ 100%
Free 156.3 GB Status Charged
Read โ–ฎโ–ฏโ–ฏโ–ฏโ–ฏ 2.1 MB/s Health Normal ยท 423 cycles
Write โ–ฎโ–ฎโ–ฎโ–ฏโ–ฏ 18.3 MB/s Temp 58ยฐC ยท 1200 RPM
โ‡… Network โ–ถ Processes
Down โ–โ–โ–ˆโ–‚โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–‡โ–†โ–…โ–‚ 0.54 MB/s Code โ–ฎโ–ฎโ–ฎโ–ฎโ–ฏ 42.1%
Up โ–„โ–„โ–„โ–ƒโ–ƒโ–ƒโ–„โ–†โ–†โ–‡โ–ˆโ–โ–โ–โ–โ– 0.02 MB/s Chrome โ–ฎโ–ฎโ–ฎโ–ฏโ–ฏ 28.3%
Proxy HTTP ยท 192.168.1.100 Terminal โ–ฎโ–ฏโ–ฏโ–ฏโ–ฏ 12.5%

Health score is based on CPU, memory, disk, temperature, and I/O load, with color-coded ranges.

Shortcuts: In mo status, press k to toggle the cat and save the preference, and q to quit.

Project Artifact Purge

Clean old build artifacts such as node_modules, target, build, and dist to free up disk space.

mo purge
Select Categories to Clean - 18.5GB (8 selected)
โžค โ—ใใ‚ใพใ‚‹ my-react-app 3.2GB | node_modules
 โ—ใใ‚ใพใ‚‹ old-project 2.8GB | node_modules
 โ—ใใ‚ใพใ‚‹ rust-app 4.1GB | target
 โ—ใใ‚ใพใ‚‹ next-blog 1.9GB | node_modules
 โ—‹ใ—ใ‚ใพใ‚‹ current-work 856MB | node_modules | Recent
 โ—ใใ‚ใพใ‚‹ django-api 2.3GB | venv
 โ—ใใ‚ใพใ‚‹ vue-dashboard 1.7GB | node_modules
 โ—ใใ‚ใพใ‚‹ backend-service 2.5GB | node_modules

Note: We recommend installing fd on macOS. brew install fd

Safety: This permanently deletes selected artifacts. Review carefully before confirming. Projects newer than 7 days are marked and unselected by default.

Custom Scan Paths

Run mo purge --paths to configure scan directories, or edit ~/.config/mole/purge_paths directly:

~/Documents/MyProjects
~/Work/ClientA
~/Work/ClientB

When custom paths are configured, Mole scans only those directories. Otherwise, it uses defaults like ~/Projects, ~/GitHub, and ~/dev.

Installer Cleanup

Find and remove large installer files across Downloads, Desktop, Homebrew caches, iCloud, and Mail. Each file is labeled by source.

mo installer
Select Installers to Remove - 3.8GB (5 selected)
โžค โ—ใใ‚ใพใ‚‹ Photoshop_2024.dmg 1.2GB | Downloads
 โ—ใใ‚ใพใ‚‹ IntelliJ_IDEA.dmg 850.6MB | Downloads
 โ—ใใ‚ใพใ‚‹ Illustrator_Setup.pkg 920.4MB | Downloads
 โ—ใใ‚ใพใ‚‹ PyCharm_Pro.dmg 640.5MB | Homebrew
 โ—ใใ‚ใพใ‚‹ Acrobat_Reader.dmg 220.4MB | Downloads
 โ—‹ใ—ใ‚ใพใ‚‹ AppCode_Legacy.zip 410.6MB | Downloads

Quick Launchers

Launch Mole commands from Raycast or Alfred:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tw93/Mole/main/scripts/setup-quick-launchers.sh | bash

Adds 5 commands: Mole Clean, Mole Uninstall, Mole Optimize, Mole Analyze, Mole Status.

Raycast Setup

After running the script, complete these steps in Raycast:

  1. Open Raycast Settings (โŒ˜ + ,)
  2. Go to Extensions โ†’ Script Commands
  3. Click "Add Script Directory" (or "+")
  4. Add path: ~/Library/Application Support/Raycast/script-commands
  5. Search in Raycast for: "Reload Script Directories" and run it
  6. Done! Search for Mole Clean or clean, Mole Optimize, or Mole Status to use the commands

Note: The script creates the commands, but Raycast still requires a one-time manual script directory setup.

Terminal Detection

Mole auto-detects your terminal app. iTerm2 has known compatibility issues. We highly recommend Kaku. Other good options are Alacritty, kitty, WezTerm, Ghostty, and Warp. To override, set MO_LAUNCHER_APP=<name>.

Community Love

Thanks to everyone who helped build Mole. Go follow them. โค๏ธ



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MIT License. Feel free to use Mole and contribute.

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